Jesse Buford: That's a bargain all right, but a bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.


--John Qualen (as Jesse Buford) in A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Lars Jorgensen: Two letters in one year! By golly!


--John Qualen (as Lars Jorgensen) in The Searchers

Muley Graves: There ain't nobody gonna push me of my land! My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago, my pa was born here, we were all born on it. And some of of us was killed on it! ...and some of us died on it. That's what make it our'n, bein' born on it,...and workin' on it,...and and dying' on it! And not no piece of paper with the writin' on it!


--John Qualen (as Muley) in The Grapes of Wrath

Olaf Johnson: A man with the brain of a bank president!


--John Qualen (as ) in Out of the Fog

Olaf Johnson: The man that collects the money always comes.


--John Qualen (as ) in Out of the Fog

Sven Johnson: Oh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock.


--John Qualen (as ) in The Big Land

Toni: Every morning you come in here and tidy up his room.
Professor Anna Mathe: Well, it needs a woman's touch.
Toni: Yes, but who gets the credit for it? Me! He thinks I bring him spring flowers. Flowers, huh! I wonder what kind of man he thinks I am!


--John Qualen (as ) in Girls' Dormitory